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Mandolin Mondays Featuring Special guest Oliver Bates Craven

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This week on Mandolin Mondays, we're joined by the great Oliver Bates Craven for a spin on this original tune "The Back Cottage," played on his amazing sounding Kimble mandolin.




Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Oliver Bates Craven is a Nashville based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. The oldest son of a folk-singing preacher, his diverse musical upbringing included a family band, a decade of classical violin lessons, and ultimately skipping football practice to teach himself the guitar playing along to Hendrix records. Oliver has spent the last ten years as a professional musician, and from intimately crowded folk clubs to sold-out festivals, has found himself on North American and European stages more than a thousand times.

A founding member of the revered Americana band The Stray Birds, he has collaborated with such artists as The Wood Brothers, Keller Williams and Mandolin Orange, and worked in studios with producers such as Dan Knobler (Lake Street Dive, Rodney Crowell) and Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm). Stepping out of the band dynamic squarely to the center of the stage, he finds a voice and a style more uniquely his own. Critic Michael T. Baker remarks, "Oliver is like if J.J. Cale and Bonnie Raitt had a son." A poignant writer with soulful and powerful vocal and instrumental deliveries, accompanied by a dynamic sense of performance that honors nuance and originality, his musicality is one of a seemingly effortless focus, and a clearly impassioned and tangible joy.

Now Oliver is living in Nashville, working on a record, playing a bit locally and touring this summer with a couple bands including Western Centuries.


And be sure to connect with Oliver at the following links below for more information about his music:

https://www.oliverbatescraven.com/
https://www.instagram.com/oliverbatescraven/
https://twitter.com/oliverbcraven
https://www.facebook.com/oliverbatescravenmusic/

And as always, tune in next week for more Mandolin Mondays! Until then...

Happy Picking!
David

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Updated Jul-19-2021 at 10:01am by dbmandolin

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  1. Todd Bowman's Avatar
    Love the tune! Excellent picking! Thanks, Oliver, for sharing!!
  2. Frankdolin's Avatar
    Awesome tune! Great play'n!
  3. Luna Pick's Avatar
    Thanks Oliver, excellent tune and playing. Great sounding Kimble too.
  4. Alfons's Avatar
    Hey, that's mighty nice! Love the feel of the tune, and the minor/major change. You and that Kimble are making each other sound pretty darned good.
  5. Paul Statman's Avatar
    Noice!
  6. EvanElk's Avatar
    damn good